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Re: [DNSOP] Anycast and DNS questions

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 02 September 2014 07:31 UTC

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 09:28:15AM +0200, Antoin Verschuren wrote:
> Reducing latency, or better, not increasing latency by introducing
> anycast is it's secondary goal.

For a number of customers of at least one provider I know (my
employer), the reverse is true.  Customers expect 100% uptime from
their DNS as a matter of course, and they don't care about anycast for
that reason.  They care about performance of page loads, and nothing
else.

Best regards,

A

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